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Discussion Meeting on Colloids, Grains and Dense Suspensions: under Flow and under Arrest organised

Monday 9 to Tuesday 10 March 2009

Colloidal suspensions undergo Brownian diffusion that arrests at high density, remobilizing under flow. Slowly sheared non-Brownian particles (dry or in suspension) likewise show chaotic trajectories, but of quite different origin. Both systems can jam spontaneously when too large a stress is applied. This meeting will compare and contrast the flow, jamming and arrest of Brownian and non-Brownian materials.